The CMOS sensors built inside Hasselblad medium format cameras deliver the best in image quality, resolution, and detail capture possible. The bigger a pixel is, the more light-gathering capability it possesses. With greater light gathering power, finer and more detailed tonal information can be produced, delivering more information in the final file.
Essentially, this gives a photographer more choice and creative freedom in post-production and retouching. Hasselblad camera sensors are individually calibrated to ensure maximum performance in any given situation. A massive amount of data is gathered for each unit in the production stage in order to study the variations that can occur and see how the sensor performs under different circumstances.
Regular and costly maintenance was quite normal too, but perhaps not so today. A modern high-end camera used to bring in the money only costs a little bit more than the van used to carry the stuff from one place to another.
And compared to other 'industries' photography is cheap, despite those seemingly high prices. Try to equip, say, a bakery, or restaurant, for as little money as setting up as a professional photographer. Cheap, cheap, cheap, photography is. People seem to be confusing the prices of new and used MF bodies. You can't really compare them now. I'd imagine amount of production has something to do with it.
Are they that much more sophisticated than a Lexus or Porsche? Probably not. But they make far fewer planes than cars. A large part of why things cost so much new, i'm sure, was revealed in an interview by the then CEO of Hasselblad. The occassion was the launch of the TCC, the first Hasselbad camera with electronics inside. There too people ask as much for their used cameras as they can. After this discussion, I can say the mystery is more or less cleared for me, and it's a combination of several things, all of them playing a role.
The main relevance of this is not the problem of scale, which would be unconvincing, but the fact that the professional market works quite differently in many things, all of which with an impact on price. Keeping film flat and transporting it becomes much harder as film size increases, and that has a cost, as have other build considerations. Current prices may be explained by the dwindling of the film market itself.
Premium brands charge a value based on reputation rather than cost, and the few serious alternatives charge the least they can that still is on the same order of magnitude as premium prices. I think it's not that costs can't be lowered through inexistent volume, but that profits have to be made on having very high margins, since the brand has no other high-selling business.
A brand like Fuji could probably make something affordable, but would have nothing to gain by it it can hardly be their interest to drive smaller MF brands out of business. You have to separate the equipment into several categories I am talking medium format from to 6x8 here : 1. New MF Digital - prices are sky high for most people 2.
Used MF Digital - prices are still very high 3. New MF Film - very rare but available 4. Used MF Film - dirt cheap with exceptions Contax The more feature packed body, the more expensive it is I was looking for a kit in very good condition. You can get better prices than that once you lower your requirements. Anyway go to Nikon and ask for a new F6 body You can't be serious. In s an rb67 would have cost you thousands, even used!
Today you can buy an rb67 for a couple hundred bucks! Same is true for any of the other brand mf cameras. Yeah within the last year I've put together a mint hassy cx body, wl finder, a chimney and magnifier hood, 3 lenses and a couple of backs for a fraction of what it would have cost new. You can say KEH on here but not Ebay. Says who? I think you may just have to look around a little more.
You must log in or sign up to reply here. Hasselblad has been making cameras for 80 years, but they weren't always this expensive. But when the company transitioned to digital, the price exploded.
OK, so it's expensive. But what actually makes this camera different? Hasselblad's high-end cameras consist of three main parts, the digital back, the body, and the lens. Rudnickas: The Hasselblad sensor is unique in a way that it's much larger in area. The individual pixel is bigger, and that provides a lower noise and wider dynamic range. Narrator: Take a look at this photo of a motorcycle.
When you zoom in, you can clearly see the texture of the handle and the wear on its tires. Larger sensors capture more detail, and Hasselblad's is one of the biggest available. Its cameras are what's called medium format. Basically, it means the sensor is big, and it's what makes these cameras so expensive. Your smartphone camera sensor is around this big. A popular professional camera, like the Sony A7R, is much larger.
But it looks tiny compared to Hasselblad's sensor. Rudnickas: When medium-format technology transitioned from analog to digital, the medium-format sensors became extremely expensive and the camera systems became extremely expensive and very niche.
Narrator: The sensor in this camera is actually made by Sony, but Hasselblad has its own proprietary calibration process to achieve the colors and image quality it wants. Rudnickas: It's very useful for the skin tones or the reproduction of artwork, where you really need to make sure that the colors you have in real life are the ones that will end up later in the photographs.
Narrator: Medium-format cameras are mainly used for product and fashion photography as well as art reproduction. The original 6x7 may not be such a good idea as the shutter has quite a bit of vibration and repairs may be difficult, but the later 67 might be an option. As mentioned above, sometimes uninformed users ruin these mechanical cameras by not understanding what they are doing, so checking them thoroughly is a good idea.
How about trying the Real Camera Company in Manchester? They have a huge stock of older and newer used kit and understand what they are selling. A good friend of mine buys and sells to them all the time and has had some great deals. Best regards, John. I'd love a 67 of some sort with the mm lens but sadly I suspect I wouldn't even be able to replace my if it broke. There's a camera shop here in Madrid that I believe still has 67 IIs for sale new. I don't know what their price is but they're probably not too much higher than some of the used ones around these days.
There's no way you'd find a deal like that these days I think. MF folding cameras are still relatively cheap as the younger folk getting interested in film photography aren't interested enough to want a camera that manual. LennyBloke Member 5, posts. I owned a Pentax 67 with a 55, and and the wooden handle back in the 's and although it was impractical for hiking and long walks the quality was absolutely superb.
I still have a few slides taken with it that I look at every couple of years, each time I am amazed at how good they are. I wouldn't buy one now, for the reliability reasons mentioned already, but if you're prepared to put the time and effort into using one I doubt you'd regret it LennyBloke. Camera Rescue are pretty good but are based in Finland and thus a bit pricey.
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